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Gorenburg: The differing interests of countries involved in Syria make working together a difficult proposition now

(RFE/RL) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country does not want an escalation in tensions with Russia after its jets shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane that Ankara said had…

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Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today

(POLITICO) HELSINKI — When Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of the Soviet Union, he did not see much need to threaten Europe with his country’s vast nuclear arsenal: The USSR’s overwhelming…

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Gorenburg: It’s pretty clear NATO states have no desire to annex a piece of Russian territory

(CSM) BALTIYSK, RUSSIA — If the tensions between Russia and the West should escalate into full-fledged confrontation, it is this former Prussian town – home to a huge military base in…

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Gorenburg: Kaliningrad the “obvious place” to deploy more military hardware

(RFE/RL) Russia is pouring troops and weapons — including missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads — into its western exclave of Kaliningrad at such a rate that the region is…

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Aborted Offensive in Donbas on Eve of G7 Summit

(EDM) It was hardly surprising that the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine was broken last week by an exchange of artillery and tank fire after weeks of deployment of Russian troops…

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Baev: In focusing specifically on Svalbard, Russia is making a political point

(Politico) Svalbard isn’t a convenient location. With its 2,500-odd residents, living in towns accessible only by plane, boat or snowmobile, this Arctic archipelago is Norway’s northernmost outpost of human habitation —…

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Kramer debunked the notion that NATO pledged non-enlargement to Russia

(New Eastern Europe) At the end of 2014 Mikhail Gorbachev wrote that he feared that the global order was now returning to that of the Cold War. “One primary reason,” Gorbachev…

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Interview on last month’s Russian military exercises

(L’Indro) A couple of weeks ago, I gave an interview to an Italian newspaper on the significance of the Russian military exercises that were conducting in conjunction with the first anniversary of the…

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Forum: NATO and Russia

(Survival: Global Politics and Strategy) Editor's note: In the last issue of Survival, Matthew Kroenig proposed a number of alterations to NATO policy and posture, including forward deployment of conventional forces in…

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Who Is at Fault in Ukraine?

Foreign Affairs recently published a number of articles examining the extent to which the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is the West's fault. Those articles sparked a heated debate, so the editors decided to ask a…

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Gorenburg: The differing interests of countries involved in Syria make working together a difficult proposition now

Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today

Gorenburg: It’s pretty clear NATO states have no desire to annex a piece of Russian territory

Gorenburg: Kaliningrad the “obvious place” to deploy more military hardware

Aborted Offensive in Donbas on Eve of G7 Summit

Baev: In focusing specifically on Svalbard, Russia is making a political point

Kramer debunked the notion that NATO pledged non-enlargement to Russia

Interview on last month’s Russian military exercises

Forum: NATO and Russia

Who Is at Fault in Ukraine?